Job 13:27

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.”

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BSBPD

“You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 13:27 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Chronicles 16:10Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
  2. Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
  3. Job 3:23Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
  4. Job 10:6that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
  5. Job 14:16For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
  6. Job 16:9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
  7. Job 33:11He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
  8. Proverbs 7:22He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,
  9. Acts 16:24On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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